| accept | bile | least | prevision |
| except | boil | lest | provision |
| affect | carol | eleven | poor |
| effect | coral | leaven | pure |
| addition | descent | neither | radish |
| edition | dissent | nether | reddish |
| assay | emerge | pasture | sentry |
| essay | immerge | pastor | century |
| baron | Francis | pillar | sit |
| barren | Frances | pillow | set |
| been | jest | point | wrench |
| bean | just | pint | rinse |
| gist |
Exercise 19
Enunciate the consonant sounds carefully in the following. Distinguish between the meanings of the words in each group.
| acts | close | treaties | rows |
| ax | clothes | treatise | rouse |
| advice | crossed | princes | rues |
| advise | across | princess | ruse |
| alms | formerly | prince | either |
| elms | formally | prints | ether |
| bodice | grays | price | running |
| bodies | grace | prize | ruin |
| cease | lose | recent | walking |
| seize | loose | resent | walk in |
| chance | plaintive | sects | weather |
| chants | plaintiff | sex | whether |
| does | pair | news | worst |
| dose | payer | noose | worsted (yarn) |
| doze |
Exercise 20
Pronounce the following, making sure that each syllable is correct. Guard against slurring the words in the last column.
| been | such | barrel | Did you? |
| gone | put | faucet | Don't you? |
| to | with | suburb | Go on. |
| for | tiny | hearth | Our education |
| aunt | and | nothing | You are |
| far | poem | office | You're not |
| our | catch | peril | We're coming |
| kept | toward | forbade | They're coming |
| says | donkey | spirit | What did you say? |
| rid | again | semi | Where are you going? |
| since | against | scared | Where have you been? |
| sleek | honest | saucy | I want to go. |
| creek | savage | turnip | I'm going to go. |
| where | swept | roof | To-morrow morning |
| boil | velvet | proof | Next month |
| hoist | direct | hydrant | Last Saturday |
Exercise 21